Rogue River (Oregon)
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The Rogue River is located in southwest Oregon. It begins in the Rogue-Umpqua Divide Wilderness Area and at Boundary Springs within Crater Lake National Park, runs through Grants Pass, Oregon, and reaches the Pacific Ocean at Gold Beach, Oregon. The river runs 215 miles (344 km), of which 84 miles (134 km) is a designated National Wild and Scenic River and 40 miles (64 km) is in the remote canyon.
The river, with its exciting Grade IV rapids, is popular among white-water rafters; it is also heavily used by jet boats, which carry 114,000 passengers a year on journeys covering up to 104 miles (167 km) of the river's length. Both are regulated, with a permit system in place for rafters, but the increasing recreational use (federal river managers counted 700,000 visitors in 1991) has led to further limits on the section designated as Wild and Scenic.
The 40-mile (64 km) Rogue River Trail runs parallel to the river from Grave Creek to Illahe.
Lost Creek Reservoir was created on the Rogue.
Parks on the Rogue:
- Joseph Stewart State Park
- Casey State Recreation Site
- Valley of the Rogue State Park
- Hellgate Recreation Area
- Rogue River National Recreation Trail
- TouVelle State Recreation Site
[edit] Trivia
- In 1940, actress Ginger Rogers purchased a ranch between Shady Cove and Eagle Point along the Rogue River, just north of Medford. It had an area of 1000 acres (4 km²). Rogers lived at the ranch (named the "4-R's" for "Rogers' Rogue River Ranch") with her mother for 50 years when she was not acting in Hollywood. The ranch was also a dairy, and would supply milk for the war effort during World War II to Camp White. Rogers loved to fish the Rogue every summer. She sold the ranch in 1990, and moved to Medford.
- The American film The River Wild was filmed on the Rogue River.
[edit] See also
- List of Oregon rivers
- Rogue River National Forest (extends from Oregon into California)
